Hello.
We have forbidden bundle libs. But what status if from one project copied some source files into another and it is not lib to link it?
I work under packaging new version of qutim [1] which is under GPLv3+ and CC-BY-SA and author copied few files to work with rtf format from fbreader [2]. It is reader - standalone application not library, so I can't forcing link to it. And additionally it licensed under GPLv2+.
So, can I threat it as permissive content and post update?
[1] http://qutim.org/?lang=en [2] http://www.fbreader.org/
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Pavel Alexeev forum@hubbitus.com.ru wrote:
Hello.
We have forbidden bundle libs. But what status if from one project copied some source files into another and it is not lib to link it?
I work under packaging new version of qutim [1] which is under GPLv3+ and CC-BY-SA and author copied few files to work with rtf format from fbreader [2]. It is reader - standalone application not library, so I can't forcing link to it. And additionally it licensed under GPLv2+.
So, can I threat it as permissive content and post update?
[1] http://qutim.org/?lang=en [2] http://www.fbreader.org/ -- With best wishes, Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus). For fast contact with me use jabber: Hubbitus@jabber.ru
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No, it really should use the system version. If it's not in Fedora, submit it as a review for a new package.
-J
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On 01/17/2012 04:01 PM, Jon Ciesla wrote:
No, it really should use the system version. If it's not in Fedora, submit it as a review for a new package.
-J
If I read correctly there is no system version since the code discussed is not a library: it's just a blob of source borrowed from another project, transplanted into another tree (with a different license..) and compiled/linked into the app.
Pavel, right?
Regards, Bryn.
Pavel Alexeev wrote:
We have forbidden bundle libs. But what status if from one project copied some source files into another and it is not lib to link it?
IMHO, that's not a library, ergo not a bundled library.
Sure, it would be nice to have that code made into an actual library, but I don't think it makes sense to require that.
Kevin Kofler
18.01.2012 21:02, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Pavel Alexeev wrote:
We have forbidden bundle libs. But what status if from one project copied some source files into another and it is not lib to link it?
IMHO, that's not a library, ergo not a bundled library.
Sure, it would be nice to have that code made into an actual library, but I don't think it makes sense to require that.
Thank you very much for the clarification.
But how I should then deal with licensing in my situation if its mismatch?
Kevin Kofler
Pavel Alexeev wrote:
But how I should then deal with licensing in my situation if its mismatch?
There is no mismatch, it's OK to include GPLv2+ code in a GPLv3+ program, the result is just GPLv3+. (You can also declare "License: GPLv3+ and GPLv2+", but if everything is getting linked into a single binary, what's left is really just GPLv3+.)
Kevin Kofler
19.01.2012 17:03, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Pavel Alexeev wrote:
But how I should then deal with licensing in my situation if its mismatch?
There is no mismatch, it's OK to include GPLv2+ code in a GPLv3+ program, the result is just GPLv3+. (You can also declare "License: GPLv3+ and GPLv2+", but if everything is getting linked into a single binary, what's left is really just GPLv3+.)
Thank you very much for clarification!
Kevin Kofler